Switching to firefox

trying to view my brother's transam blog that he created on mac.com in safari 1.3.2 on osx 10.3.9 and it shows no photos. pretty poor for a mac product. works fine on firefox - photos, slideshows, the works.
gets more like microsoft with every new OSX release - buy the new system or get no support. bah.

And your telling us why?
It works pretty well on mine. Safari... iWeb... my photo's look pretty good actually.
This is a user to user discussion board where people help each other with technical issues. And I'm trying to figure out what your specific issue is. Since you don't seem to have one... and since this is not the place to address Apple directly because this is a USER to USER discussion board, I would suggest you go to the Apple Feedback page to air your dissatisfaction.
gets more like microsoft with every new OSX release - buy the new system or get no support. bah.
"New System"? First of all, your brother's system is, ahem... kind of old. No shame in that. Which leads me to "No Support"? Considering your brothers set up, if there was any support to be had, this would've been the place to get it. But I guess your switching to firefox. Oh well.
Good Luck.
mwn
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